Hi I uploaded some pictures of my bearded dragon but please let me know if they are to close or if you want me to edit the sharpness. I would want mine full paged so please let me know what corrections I need to make! Thanks!
Hello! I believe I uploaded four photos; two each of two of my beardies. I hope I did it correctly. If you can't use them, I won't be offended. Thank you!
Indeed. I'm sure we'll have another 2, at least this year. I just hope that they sell reasonably well. The last couple years have been pretty low on sales, which is unfortunate, as it is one of the bigger things to help pay for the hosting costs. Hopefully this year will be better. If not, at least there will be good calendars for people. I am hoping to have them available by the end of October, if I can get enough time to work on them between now and then.
No. Everyone uploading their photos for me to be able to use them for the calendars is more than enough help. The upload tool I made (starting last year) helps a lot too. But uploading it that way, it pre-sorts the images by size, and saves your usernames and beard's names. That's work that would literally be a quarter of the time I spent before I could do any selections. Next, I go through and flag the ones that I think will work and mark ones I know won't. If I need something from any of you for your images, I'll follow-up via PM or email.
For those interested, my process is basically:
- Gather and sort (largely done but he upload tool now)
- Triage (work through to pick out the top candidates for full page and cover)
- Make final selection for full/cover images, medium size images, and the rest being the smaller images.
- Narrow down to one pic per beardie, for those still needing that selection
- Put them all into the layouts
- Adjust for ensuring all images for any one member are in the same calendar (I usually make 2 each year; I may do 3 this year).
- Post preview images
- Make corrections from all your feedback (sometimes I get the names wrong or miss someone's beardie)
- Post final images for the 2016 calendars and announce availability.
Wow, that's quite a process. Great that the upload tool saves you some valuable time. I know it sure is easier for us.
It sure is wonderful that there were so many submissions. Hopefully sales will be up this year too.
We do appreciate all your hard work and the amazing job you do with arranging them so beautifully. It sure is nice seeing the pictures of our special beardies.
I hope my Tiki gets a full page crossing my fingers. Thank you so much for doing this everyone is going to love them! I already have people waiting to buy so they can see tiki lol
I swear the first time I read this post and the when I showed my girlfriend there was no deadline advertised.....I must of overlooked it. Was quite a few weeks ago. I just took some what I thought were really good pics of our first beardie and went to upload and seen the deadline. Oh well hopefully next year :/ lol...
I'm opening it up for just a little longer. I haven't yet started to process them myself, so I'm okay with accepting a few late-comers.
Btw, it always has the due date. I copy and paste the announcement from each prior year with slight adjustments and am pretty sure I had the deadline posted on the first one (some 10 years ago).
So, go ahead and upload. I'll be opening it momentarily.
I have not looked at any in detail. Anyone can verify their uploads though (thumbnail view) by going to the upload form and clicking the link to view your uploads.